Location independence

As I write this I’m looking out at hills and mountains bathed in sunshine. I’ll go out for a walk later with no jacket on and be pleasantly warm. I’ll see an orange and red sunset at the end of the day as I’m shutting down the laptop in my remote office. Best of all, …

Do you have a laptop job of some kind where you can work from anywhere around the world? Do you run a remote business or does your work-from-home arrangement take you to a new home sometimes? Then you’ll probably be interested in a new membership club I signed up for recently that’s a house swap …

Back in 2007, an ambitious and unknown author named Tim Ferriss reached out to me because he had a book coming out and wanted to know if I’d review it and/or interview him. I was probably one of about 200 people he reached out to. He was ringing up people he thought had an audience that …

It used to be that if you wanted to pack everything in storage and go travel long-term for months or years, you needed to have lots of savings or you needed to find some kind of international job. Unless your company transferred you abroad with a fat salary and housing allowance, that job was usually …

Since this is the Cheapest Destinations Blog, naturally I talk a lot about the cheapest places to travel, the cheapest places to live, and how to travel well for less money. Cost reduction is just one advantage of moving out of an expensive country and embracing the nomadic lifestyle, but it’s one you can see …